We borrowed a friend's trailer yesterday to get our Christmas tree. It is super helpful this particular friend lets us use his trailer whenever we need it, buuuuuuut there is usually something in it that needs to go to the dump before we can put our stuff in it. Yesterday was no exception.
We picked up the very full trailer and headed to the dump to unload it. Travis was grumbling a little bit about how much was in the trailer and while I was equally annoyed, I figured looking for a bright side would be in order since we were on a fun tree shopping trip and there was no sense starting it off with yucky mindsets. That, and both boys were listening.
So, I said, "Well, how about we think about it this way...instead of having a financial payment to make for the use of a trailer, we have a manual labor payment to make for the use of a trailer. We don't have to pay any money for it, but we still get to use it whenever we need it." Before Travis could agree, because of course he was going to agree with me, Alex piped up from the back seat, "Yeah! It's symbiosis!" Uhhhhhh, wat. He continued, "Yeah, we get to use his trailer and he gets a clean trailer. Everybody gets what they need. It's symbiosis!" I agreed that is in fact what it was and asked where he learned such an awesome word. "Ocotonauts and Wild Kratts."
And people say TV is useless. Ha!
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